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Title: D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0-684-80137-X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.97 (263 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: D stands for Definitive
Comment: When I was 8 years old, I came across a copy of Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, and after I finished it I became enthralled by the events that occurred on June 6, 1944, the day Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy. And for many years Ryan's book was, in my opinion, the best book on the subject. I read other books on D-Day by authors such as Howarth and Hastings, but Ryan was the one author whose D-Day story always came to my mind.
That is, until I read Stephen Ambrose's D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.
Although The Longest Day is still a wonderful book to read, Ambrose's book is now considered by many to be the definitive book about the events that took place on D-Day. Although both books tell the same story, Ambrose weaves a far more detailed tapestry than Ryan did way back in 1959. And while both authors focused on participants' accounts to give their books a "grunt's eye" view of the D-Day invasion, Ambrose refrains from tweaking people's personalities to suit his personal sense of morality as Ryan did. (In both the book and screenplay for The Longest Day, Ryan portrayed PFC Arthur "Dutch" Schultz as a proper Catholic boy and told a cleaned up version of how Schultz won, then lost, $2,500 in a game of craps.)
Ambrose's strength as a historian-author is his straightforward writing style, which is accessible without being simplistic. He wrote the way he spoke: as a friendly, almost fatherly college professor who enjoyed sharing his love of history with his students and readers. His prose is crisp and never dull (something he shared with Cornelius Ryan, who he respected even if he disagreed with some of the conclusions Ryan presented in his book), and although he describes scenes of utter chaos and carnage, there are touches of humor and human foibles as well. Thus, the narrative flows effortlessly and Ambrose allows the veterans and eyewitnesses on all sides to tell their stories in their own words.
Ambrose passed away a few months ago, but his legacy willl endure in this "love song to democracy," as he described this wonderful book.
Rating: 2
Summary: D Day: June 6 1944
Comment: Mr. Ambrose narrated his book with great enthusiasm. Unfortunately, his dentures were slipping or something and the whistling and so on resulting are rather distracting. Perhaps to compensate he attacked some words like 'especially,' as ex-specially, to avoid the whistle, which was even more distracting. Ambrose included a lot of first rate research in this effort, but it is padded with a certain amount of formulaic war book boiler plate. For example there is too much of the superlative; we know it was a big event, we do not need to be reminded in every description that the tonnage, air bombardment, etc., were the greatest in all recorded history. Similarly there is a certain amount of dogmatic expression of respect. He argues briefly to take exception to the critics who say that the American fighting man in this war was not the equal of the German. But the argument sheds no light, and does not include statistics or examples, or even reference to the specific viewpoints he opposes.
Rating: 5
Summary: 5 PLUS
Comment: I loved this book (along with just about everything else that Ambrose has written). Throughout the entire book, I kept thinking, "Thank God I never had to go to war". This is a fantastic read. Enjoy!!!
Dr. Michael L. Johnson author of "What Do You Do When the Medications Don't Work?--A Non-Drug Treatment of Dizziness, Migraine Headaches, Fibromyalgia, and Other Chronic Conditions".
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Title: Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0743216458 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: CITIZEN SOLDIERS : THE U S ARMY FROM THE NORMANDY BEACHES TO THE BULGE TO THE SURRENDER OF GERMANY by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0684848015 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 24 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: PEGASUS BRIDGE by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0671671561 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Currahee! : A Screaming Eagle at Normandy by Donald R. Burgett ISBN: 0440236304 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Parachute Infantry : An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster, Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0385336497 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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